WESTERN FARMERS.

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC) is a Generation and Transmission (G&T) electric cooperative based in Anadarko, Okla., providing electric service to 21 member distribution cooperatives in Oklahoma and New Mexico, Altus Air Force Base, and other power users. WFEC was founded by distribution co-op systems 75 years ago and has grown into Oklahoma’s largest locally owned power supply system. The cooperative was organized in 1941, when western Oklahoma rural electric distribution cooperatives found it necessary to secure an adequate power supply at rates farmers and rural industrial developers could afford. Today, WFEC has six generating facilities located at Mooreland, Anadarko and Hugo, Okla., and Lovington, N.M., with total power capacity of more than 2,400 megawatts, when purchased hyrdopower is included. WFEC has 3,700 miles of transmission line to over 330 sub and switch stations. WFEC has enabled the development of several wind farms and solar gardens in Oklahoma and New Mexico.

KAMO POWER.

KAMO Electric Cooperative, Inc., was one of the first regional generation and transmission electric cooperatives formed under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, and is named after the four states where it was established to operate - Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Today, KAMO serves 17 member distribution cooperatives spanning 43 counties in two states - southwest Missouri and northeast Oklahoma. KAMO’s workforce is strategically situated to operate and maintain its nearly 2,700 miles of high-voltage transmission system and over 275 substations. KAMO employs nearly 200 highly skilled technical, professional and administrative personnel at its headquarters and a service center in Vinita, Okla.; area offices in El Dorado Springs, Neosho and Spokane, MO.; and area offices in Cleveland, Collinsville, Muskogee and Stillwater, Okla.

GOLDEN SPREAD.

Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc., provides electric service to 16 member cooperatives located in the Oklahoma panhandle and an area covering 24 percent of the Texas panhandle, South Plains and Edwards Plateau regions. Golden Spread has six natural gas fired generating units at Mustang Station located near Denver City, Texas with total capability of nearly 1,000 MW. At Antelope Elk Energy Center, located near Abernathy, Texas, Golden Spread has 168 MWs made up of 18 quick start natural gas engines and three quick start natural gas fired combustion turbines.